Check book



Nov. 4

A. B. LEWIS cnmcx aoox Filed July 16'.

Patented Nov. 4, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AB-QHIBALD B. LEWIS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR T0 GEO." ID. BARNARD STATIQ'NEB/Y COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

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Application filed July 16,

Toall whom it may concern Be itknown that I, Anorrrennn B. Lewis, a citizen of the United States of America. and a resident of the city Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Check Books, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part'of this specification. I

My invention relates to improvements in check books and aims to provide a book in which the checks and stubs may be easily filled in, and which permits of using stubs of a grade of paper different from that of the checks. In other words, the stubs and checks are kept separately in the check book and the checks may be of a high grade material, while the stubs may be of a lower grade material, thus effecting a substantial saving in the cost of the check book.

Both the stubs and checks are preferably in the form of renewable pads filled into permanent covers, so that the book may be continuously used over a long period of time by inserting new pads as the old ones become filled. I have also provided a novel form of stub data sheet, and a permanent record for the balances of the consecutive stub pads.

In the drawings, Fig. I shows the check book open, with the check pad on one cover and the stub pad on the other.

Fig. II is a perspective of a stub pad, showing the sheets connected together at their upper ends.

Fig. III is a perspective of the check pad, showing the sheets connected together at one of their side edges.

Fig. IV is a section on the line IVIV, Fig. I, with the pads removed.

A designates a check book, having a front cover 1, a back cover 2, and a flexible web 3 connecting the covers at their inner ends. The covers 1 and 2 are of the same size and are made of relatively stifl material. A. pad of check sheets B is mounted on the cover 2 at the outer end of the cover, the check pad being of a lesser length than the cover and therefore leaving a space on the cover between the inner ends of the cover and pad, respectively, for a purpose to be hereinafter described.

Each check sheet consists of a plurality of checks arranged in column form and per- 1920. Serial No. 396,805.

forated at b for separation from each other, and a plurality of such sheets will make up the pad. The sheets are connected together and to the cover 2 along their inner side edges as shown at 41-. A. tongue 5 is sc cured to the connected edges of the check pad and is adapted to fit into a pocket 6 in the cover 2, whereby the pad is held in place and may be withdrawn for renewal. Attached to the inner end of the cover 1 is the stub pad C, consisting of unperforated stub sheets connected together at their upper edges, and having a tongue 7 attached thereto and fitted into a pocket 8 in the cover 1, whereby the pad may be withdrawn when filled, so that a new one may be in serted. On each stub sheet there are a plurality of stubs united in column formation, but the stubs are not detachable fro-m each other nor from the pad. When it is desired to fill in one of the stub sheets other than the first one, or when it is desired to inspect the stubs, the stubs may be turned up out of the way by swinging them upon their attached edges upwardly over the upper edge of the cover 1. In this manner the filled-in stubs will not interfere with the filling in of successive stubs.

The stub sheets are arranged so that each check stubhas a check-amount column 9 and a deposit-amount column 10 located side by side and extending down through the several stubs on the sheet whereby the balance of each stub sheet may be easily computed as a whole, or each stub balanced separately, as desired. When the two covers are folded together about their hinge web 3, the stub pad fits within the space between the inner end of the cover 2 and the inner end of the check pad B.

In any convenient place on the covers, such as between the check pad and the inner end of the cover 2, is placed a stub record sheet D, which is a permanent record of the transferred balances of the consecutive stub pads. When a stub pad is about to be removed from the book, its balance is transferred to the stub record sheet where it remains in permanent form. There is place provided on the stub record for the transferral of the balances of a number of stub pads, the exact number of entries being dependent upon the material of which the covers are made and which approximately determines their length of service.

It will be apparent that modifications from the embodiment herein disclosed, as, for instance, making the pads bound into a permanent book rather than in removable covers, etc, can be made without departing from the scope of the hereunto appended claims.

I claim:

1. A check hook comprising a front member and a back member hinged together, a

ad of checks mounted on one of said memers, the top surface area of said pad of checks being less than that of said member so as to provide a stub-receiving space on said member, and a pad of check stubs mounted on the other member and adapted to occupy said space when said book is closed, said check stubs being secured together and to the associated member at their upper edges to form a hinge whereby they may be folded over the upper edge of the pad of check stubs, said checks being secured together and to the associated member at one of their side edges to provide a hinge at a right angle to the hinge of said check stubs, and said checks being separate from the corresponding check stubs so as to permit independent movement of said checks and stubs on their respective hinges.

2. A check book comprising aback and a front cover hinged to each other, a pad of checks mounted on said back cover, the top surface area of said pad of checks being less than the cover on which it is mounted so as to provide a stub-receiving space on said cover, and a separate pad of check stubs adapted to occupy said stub-receiving space when the check book is closed, said check stubs being secured together and to said front cover at their upper edges to form a upper edge of the pad of check stubs, and said checks being secured together and tosaid back cover at their left edges to form a hinge at a right angle to the hinge of the sparate pad of check stubs.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I hereunto afiix my signature.

ARCHIBALD B. LEWIS.

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